Henry Adams





Henry Adams

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born
in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
February 16, 1838

died
March 27, 1918

gender
male

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Born in 1838 into one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Boston, a family which had produced two American presidents, Henry Adams had the opportunity to pursue a wide-ranging variety of intellectual interests during the course of his life. Functioning both in the world of practical men and afffairs (as a journalist and an assistant to his father, who was an American diplomat in Washinton and London), and in the world of ideas (as a prolific writer, the editor of the prestigious North American Review, and a professor of medieval, European, and American history at Harvard), Adams was one of the few men of...more


Average rating: 3.74 · 1,806 ratings · 254 reviews · 58 distinct works · Similar authors
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More books by Henry Adams…
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Henry Adams

“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Friends are born, not made.”
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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